AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (01/03/89)
>Date: Sun, 1 Jan 89 14:27:00 EST >From: ALBRO%NIEHS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU >Subject: RE: Re: Backup program for IIgs SCSI 65 Meg Seagate >On using Prosel's BACKUP with your Seagate - BACKUP can only handle 10 >and 20 mbyte drives. Too bad. I don't have a larger hard drive to try it with, but that sounds very wrong; I don't see any reason why BACKUP wouldn't work with an arbitrarily large (up to the ProDOS limit of 32M, of course) volume, and the documentation doesn't mention any restriction on the size of the volume being backed up. Possibly you were thinking of BEACH.COMBER; if I remember right, the standard version can handle volumes up to 10M, and an extended-memory version can handle up to 20M. (Actually BEACH.COMBER will work with larger volumes as long as no blocks are actually in use past the size it can deal with.) --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons
ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET (01/04/89)
The message from David Lyons is correct - BACKUP on PROSEL is not limited to 20 meg; it's BEACH.COMBER that is. Sorry about the confusion.